discounsel
English
Etymology
From Old French desconseillier.
Verb
discounsel (third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle discounselling or discounseling, simple past and past participle discounselled or discounseled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To advise (someone) against doing something. [15th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
- But him the Palmer from that vanity, / With temperate aduice discounselled […]
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 41, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Anthony de Leva, seeing the Emperor his master resolutely obstinate to undertake that voyage, and deeming it wonderfully glorious, maintained neverthelesse the contrarie, and discounselled him from it […].
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Anagrams
- cloudiness, senoculids, undisclose